The World 1900

Political world map of the world at the turn of the century.

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Good map. Where did you managed to find a baseline map for this?
 
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Rather unlikely map, to be honest.

I cannot see a realistic point after 1840 when the Netherlands would re-acquire Belgium. (Well, a PoD with an international consensus deposing Leopold II. in the 1890s for his Kongo crimes and re-adding his kingdom in personal union to the Netherlands would be ... intertesting, but ASB. Plus, it would not result in a Dutch Cameroon.)

So, with an assumed PoD in the 1830s, a different colonization of the Kongo area is plausible. A British Guayana up to the Orinoco could happen, but it would not be partitioned. And the border in the Roraima area looks awfully convergent to OTL.

The same goes for the borders in Southern Africa. Many were established decades after 1840 and would hardly appear like OTL. I mean, the Caprivi Strip? Really? OTOH, a Dutch Cameroon and a Dutch Gold Coast-Togoland-Dahomey would probably not compensated by a British Aceh.

But the most irritatingly convergent OTL broders are in Europe: A Prussian Little Germany that includes Alsace-Lorraine is hard to believe, but the oddly prescient Balkan situation is mind-boggling: For some reason, the Serbian and Bulgarian (!) armies manage to create the same frontlines and thus borders like in OTL 1908.
 
Rather unlikely map, to be honest.

I cannot see a realistic point after 1840 when the Netherlands would re-acquire Belgium. (Well, a PoD with an international consensus deposing Leopold II. in the 1890s for his Kongo crimes and re-adding his kingdom in personal union to the Netherlands would be ... intertesting, but ASB. Plus, it would not result in a Dutch Cameroon.)
This is a very unrealistic way of thinking.

So, with an assumed PoD in the 1830s, a different colonization of the Kongo area is plausible. A British Guayana up to the Orinoco could happen, but it would not be partitioned. And the border in the Roraima area looks awfully convergent to OTL.

The same goes for the borders in Southern Africa. Many were established decades after 1840 and would hardly appear like OTL. I mean, the Caprivi Strip? Really? OTOH, a Dutch Cameroon and a Dutch Gold Coast-Togoland-Dahomey would probably not compensated by a British Aceh.

Why not, the United Netherlands is now one of the largest economies of the continent, quite some different than the insignificant Belgium and Netherlands.

But the most irritatingly convergent OTL broders are in Europe: A Prussian Little Germany that includes Alsace-Lorraine is hard to believe, but the oddly prescient Balkan situation is mind-boggling: For some reason, the Serbian and Bulgarian (!) armies manage to create the same frontlines and thus borders like in OTL 1908.
Changed the Franco Prusian border. The Balkan, is very blury and the borders were fluid due to the many wars, but honestly I do not give about the Balkan and there borders at all.

PoD is 1815 Willem Frederik ( first son of King William I) dies at the Battle of Quatre Brass, the overture of the Battle of Waterloo.
During the July revolt in Paris in 1830, riots borke out in Brussels and Liege but due to the swift reaction of General van Gheen in Liege and Crown Prince Frederik Willem (sencond son of King william I) around Brussles ( He occupied the city gates and rounded up the mob and would be French agitators) the king dom survived. Liberals of the South broke with the Catholic and the Liberals of the South and North found each other under the Politician Thornecke.
At this moment the head of state is Her Majesty Queen Louise of Orange Nassau, daughter of KIng Frederik who reigned from 1839 until 1871.

The London treaties of 1854, 1870 and 1872 aranged the colonial borders of the Indonesian archipel and the Gold Coast. With the treaties the whole Gold coast was returned through the Netherlands in return for a large sum and very lucrative trade and port right for the UK. Reson was that during the previous decades entrepeneurs from the Netherlands recognised it more and more as a good market and plantation enterprises became, after setbacks, very succes full and established trade post East of the British( fromer Dutch and Danish) trade post, which is called Togo and Benin. This was also the reason why the Cameroon coast was ocupied. Due to the lobby of this palntation and trade companies the Nehterlands claimed this area during the Berlin Africa conference.
After the Venezulean crisis the British aquired large portion if Venezuela and Colombia took a part as well, the borders of the Guyana's were settled.
 
Changed the Franco Prusian border. The Balkan, is very blury and the borders were fluid due to the many wars, but honestly I do not give about the Balkan and there borders at all.

Well, they still exist, even in your TL, and simply copying OTL 1903 borders still looks bad. Why don't you copy the ~1880 borders, they mostly still held in OTL 1900.
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PoD is 1815 Willem Frederik ( first son of King William I) dies at the Battle of Quatre Brass, the overture of the Battle of Waterloo.
During the July revolt in Paris in 1830, riots borke out in Brussels and Liege but due to the swift reaction of General van Gheen in Liege and Crown Prince Frederik Willem (sencond son of King william I) around Brussles ( He occupied the city gates and rounded up the mob and would be French agitators) the king dom survived. Liberals of the South broke with the Catholic and the Liberals of the South and North found each other under the Politician Thornecke.

Thorbecke. But the rest is ok.

At this moment the head of state is Her Majesty Queen Louise of Orange Nassau, daughter of KIng Frederik who reigned from 1839 until 1871.

The London treaties of 1854, 1870 and 1872 aranged the colonial borders of the Indonesian archipel and the Gold Coast. With the treaties the whole Gold coast was returned through the Netherlands in return for a large sum and very lucrative trade and port right for the UK. Reson was that during the previous decades entrepeneurs from the Netherlands recognised it more and more as a good market and plantation enterprises became, after setbacks, very succes full and established trade post East of the British( fromer Dutch and Danish) trade post, which is called Togo and Benin.

No, it isn't. The Kingdom of Benin is in OTL Nigeria, clearly outside of your Dutch colony. The OTL country of Dahomey, formerly French, only called itself Benin in 1975. It is the same as calling a Gold Coast colony "Ghana" in 1900.
BTW, the real Benin had possibly the most badass flag ever:
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This was also the reason why the Cameroon coast was ocupied. Due to the lobby of this palntation and trade companies the Nehterlands claimed this area during the Berlin Africa conference.

A Dutch envoy beating Gustav Nachtigal sounds intriguing. You should elaborate, especially the consequences for Dutch-german diplomacy.

After the Venezulean crisis the British aquired large portion if Venezuela and Colombia took a part as well, the borders of the Guyana's were settled.

Please look at the most extreme claim of the UK in the below map. Claiming and conquering the area up to the Orinoco would IMO certainly have triggered a very aggressive reaction by the US.

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Thanks for the update, very interesting.
I will try to update the map on the Balkan, how ever I think the map quality is not good enough to express the bordrs in detail.
Sorry for the typo, it is Thorbecke. He is a son of German immigrants, raised in Zwolle, (North Netherlands) and studied at the university of Ghent (South Netherlands)until the Belgian revolt broke out. Since this did not ahppen, I think the man is an excelent Prime Minister for a United Nehterlands.

I am aware of the confusion of names in West Africa. You are correct regarding the kingdoms of Benin and Ghana. This actual African Kingoms were no were were the current countries are which bare the same name. The Kingdom of Ghana was more were present day Niger and Upper Volta is. I was refering to OTL Ghana, Togo and Benin. Nice flag, represent quite well were they made there mony from, slave trade and a habit to decapitate opponents.

I know the extreme claim of the UK which is not as large as I pictured in my map. You are correct this would most likely not happen when this issue came to table as it did in OTL. I could not resist to play with the thought that the UK took advantage of the Fedralis war, the civil war of Venezuela, in the 1850ties in a cook book example of devine and conquer were Colombia took a small part in as well. The 1850ties are early enough to ignore the USA.

Regarding OTL Cameroon and Togo, beating Gustav Nachtigal is not in question. Nachtigal, can do his exploration as he did but the coastal area's are occupied by Dutch entrepeneurs and traders for the Netherlands and from Dutch Gold Coast. Gustav might even get in service of a Dutch University or Company?
The teritories in Africa looks large, but at this time only the coastal area's are under direct Dutch rule the interior is hardly explored or 'pacified'. Gold coast is an exeption but that is also due to the part plantations are older, further developed and the Ashanty kingdom is well developed and organised.

I was toiling with the idea to keep the Kingdom of Hanover independent, after staying neutral in the ''Bruder Krieg'' or due to a personel union between the Dutch Monarchy and the Hanover Monarchy. Even if the last option is not any more a garanty for independence in the 19th century
 
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